The Unabridged Devil's DictionaryUniversity of Georgia Press, 2010 M09 15 - 440 páginas If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another." This is the most comprehensive, authoritative edition ever of Ambrose Bierce’s satiric masterpiece. It renders obsolete all other versions that have appeared in the book’s ninety-year history. |
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... believe God to be the author of the Bible. But just as biblical tradition holds that God did not literally put pen to paper to reveal his thought, instead inspiring certain writers to undertake that task, we find that the “writer who ...
... Believe whate'er they cannot comprehend, And, inly edified to learn that two Half-hairs joined so and so (as Art can do) Have sweeter values and a grace more fit Than Nature's hairs that never have been split, Bring cates and wines for ...
... believe that majorities govern through some inherent right; and minorities submit, not because they must, but because they ought. Bandit, m. A person who takes by force from Awhat A has taken by guile from B. Bang, n. The cry of a gun ...
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